Man who invented it doesnt want it

I think time is a theory people made up, because we just assume that's the time. But it really isn't see, because, time is a something we assume, not know the future isn't real the past is real because it happend the present is now, so basically this theory is half true. Dabria Mar 16, I totally agree how do we know its "real". Mar 18, Thinking about this topic can really get you thinking! Oct 22, Kendi Oct 3, If nobody invented time, how did time get its name?

Josh gough Aug 26, Aug 29, Thanks for joining the conversation, Josh! We're glad you visited Wonderopolis. Mario Jun 29, Jul 1, Oct 5, Daboss Apr 30, Wonderopolis Apr 30, Cody Mar 5, Ok I understand how years, months and weeks came about.. But days, why 24 hours? Why 60 mins? Why 60 seconds? A day could of been divided up in any manner Is there some sort of significance? Why not 10 hours, mins, and seconds? Jag Jun 30, Jul 3, The Answerer Aug 30, Sep 3, Nice answer, The Answerer!

Wonderopolis Mar 9, Wonder really doesn't answer Cody's question. Wonderopolis May 8, Sierra Jan 13, Wonderopolis Jan 15, Hi Sierra! Hubba bubba Aug 20, I really enjoyed learning about time. Wonderoplis is an amazing website that I always learn so much on, due to the interactive activities we need to do on it such as the quizzes and videos, etc. Wonderopolis Aug 20, Wonderopolis Jun 4, Wonderopolis Nov 13, Ty Oct 18, I thought time was invented by Earth's gravitational pull.

Wonderopolis Oct 19, Kevin Oct 18, By the way, we just learned about Native Americans in Social Studies. Halee Oct 18, I thought a scientist created time. I didn't believe it when it said time wasn't created.

Wonderopolis Oct 18, Hey Halee! Maybe the sun had something to do with how time came to be. Did people invent time to organize their lives? Jade pruitt Oct 18, That is a question I have been wondering about for a long time. Did God just invent it and spoke to Jesus or Moses or something.

Hey Jade! Austin Hughes Oct 18, Hey Austin! Thanks for sharing your comment with us! Matt H. Oct 18, I think it was someone who wanted to invent a lazer gun and made a mistake. Hey Matt! That is a fun idea! Chris Oct 18, How come nobody invented time? I was amazed that no one invented time! How does time work? Related Wonders for You to Explore Match its definition: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic.

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If we start to dig deeper, we soon find many different answers, and most of them are correct. Searching for an answer invites us to review the history of computing, to meet its pioneers and to discover that it is still not entirely clear what a computer is. Before Babbage, computers were humans. This was the name given to people who specialised in making numerical calculations —those who spent long hours performing arithmetic operations, repeating the processes over and over again and leaving the results of their calculations written in tables, which were compiled in valuable books.

These tables made life much easier for other specialists, whose job it was to use these results to perform all sorts of tasks: from the artillery officers who decided how to aim the cannons, to the tax collectors who calculated taxes, to the scientists who predicted the tides or the movement of the stars in the heavens.

Thus, at the end of the 17th century, Napoleon commissioned Gaspard de Prony 22 July — 29 July with the revolutionary task of producing the most precise logarithmic and trigonometric tables with between 14 and 29 decimal places ever made, in order to refine and facilitate the astronomical calculations of the Paris Observatory, and to be able to unify all the measurements made by the French administration.

For this colossal task, de Prony had the brilliant idea of dividing the most complex calculations into simpler mathematical operations that could be performed by less qualified human computers. This way of speeding up the work and avoiding errors was one of the things that inspired English polymath Charles Babbage 26 December — 18 October to take the next step: replacing human computers with machines.

Babbage is considered by many to be the father of computing because of that vision, which never really came true by his efforts. His first attempt was the Difference Engine , which he began to build in , based on the principle of finite differences, in order to perform complex mathematical calculations by means of a simple series of additions and subtractions , avoiding multiplications and divisions.

He even created a small calculator that proved that his method worked, but he was not able to build a differential engine to fill in those coveted logarithmic and trigonometric tables with accurate data. Far from being discouraged by this setback, mathematician, philosopher, engineer and inventor Charles Babbage doubled down. He concentrated all his energies on developing the Analytical Engine , which was much more ambitious since it would be capable of performing even more complex calculations by computing multiplications and divisions.

Once again, Babbage never got past the design stage, but it was those designs he began in that made him, perhaps not the father of computing, but definitely a prophet of what was to come. In , one year after Charles Babbage died, the great physicist William Thomson Lord Kelvin invented a machine capable of performing complex calculations and predicting the tides in a given place.

It is considered the first analogue computer, sharing honours with the differential analyser built in by his brother James Thomson. The latter device was a more advanced and complete version, which managed to solve differential equations by integration, using wheel and disc mechanisms. However, it took several more decades until, well into the 20th century, H. Between and , they built a differential analyser that was truly practical since it could be used to solve different problems, and as such, following that criterion, it could be considered the first computer.

By this point, these analogue machines could already replace human computers in some tasks and were calculating faster and faster, especially when their gears began to be replaced by electronic components.

But they still had one serious drawback. They were designed to perform one type of calculation and if they were to be used for another, their gears or circuits had to be replaced.

That was the case until , when a young English student, Alan Turing, thought of a computer that would solve any problem that could be translated into mathematical terms and then reduced to a chain of logical operations with binary numbers, in which only two decisions could be made: true or false.

The idea was to reduce everything numbers, letters, pictures, sounds to strings of ones and zeros and use a recipe a program to solve the problems in very simple steps.